Alright so I’ve been a bit slack at posting interesting info & for that I am sorry guys! I know how much you all look forward to my random rants…
Anyway I have been busy training & focusing on NOT drinking, which has actually been easier than I thought it would be. However next weekend is the traditional Waitangi Day Circle Line Pub Crawl (9 February) culminating in many white Kiwi boys living in London (made pastier by the location) ripping off their shirts outside Buckingham Palace or Westminster & performing the haka. So suffice to say that while I am ‘doing’ the Circle Line Pub Crawl I am also not ‘doing’ it as I shall be on the OJ (without vodka thank you very much you sceptics!).
Training has been progressing, I still have the ability to tune in to my ipod & therefore tune out the pain or the exhaustion & do my runs around East London. It is fun getting to know my neighbourhood, quite possibly something that I wouldn’t have done, or at least not until it got warmer, so it is rewarding on multiple levels. While London living has not been kind to me, I may have been in good enough shape (cough, cough) before I left that it is not so bad, although still rather challenging, to do my runs. What I find the hardest is the speed or interval training that I am also doing to get that bit faster & be able to train a bit harder. So I will get there, I have just over 10 weeks to go, so in the scheme of things not long enough!
Please, please remember that while I am doing this for my own pain & for your entertainment pleasure, I am also doing this to raise money for Children with Leukaemia, which is an incredible organisation here in the UK. I am way off my target of £2,000 so please, please whip out your credit card & make a donation at:
www.bmycharity.com/EmzTakesOnLondon
Also please pass this on to your friends, whanau (family), colleagues etc! Your help is greatly appreciated.
Emz
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
So far sokay...
Well those of you who had the privilege of working with me at the lovely Te Tari Taiwhenua will be aware of my love of the odd run, often with my Dad along the waterfront at lunchtime, it was also great when it was beautiful & sunny... You are probably still recovering from my sporting tales, wins, losses and everything in between (yes including the dislocated knee incident). Ok so imagine me, four months of NOT doing any of the sort of stuff I did & indulging in the Antipodean past time of beer, wine & anything else with an alcohol content or high percentage of bad stuff in it. So for me to train for the marathon is not as easy as it was back in September.
So my achievement this evening, not only to survive the pollution of East London peak hour traffic (& dodge Londoners who need to learn to keep left!), was to run to Tower Bridge from home on a nice little 6 mile loop. The best part for my confidence I must say is that I did it in 50 minutes, didn't collapse & still walked up the stairs to my apartment! Now for those sensible people who use the metric system & use it exclusively (like I used to be...) will not know how far that is, well 5 miles is about 8km so 6 miles is about 9.6km. So not the best time but it is early days in the training schedule.
Now just need to get a handle on the whole no more bad food & I will be fine. Oh & for the non believers of you I am also not having a drink until after the marathon (oi! I can hear you laughing from here that's not nice!). So closer to the time we might have to have a post marathon party where I will be a cheap date...
Anyway thank you to those of you who have very kindly made donations, please anyone else who is feeling the need (& now you know how serious I am, giving up wine for three months!) visit www.bmycharity.com/EmzTakesOnLondon
Arohanui
Em
So my achievement this evening, not only to survive the pollution of East London peak hour traffic (& dodge Londoners who need to learn to keep left!), was to run to Tower Bridge from home on a nice little 6 mile loop. The best part for my confidence I must say is that I did it in 50 minutes, didn't collapse & still walked up the stairs to my apartment! Now for those sensible people who use the metric system & use it exclusively (like I used to be...) will not know how far that is, well 5 miles is about 8km so 6 miles is about 9.6km. So not the best time but it is early days in the training schedule.
Now just need to get a handle on the whole no more bad food & I will be fine. Oh & for the non believers of you I am also not having a drink until after the marathon (oi! I can hear you laughing from here that's not nice!). So closer to the time we might have to have a post marathon party where I will be a cheap date...
Anyway thank you to those of you who have very kindly made donations, please anyone else who is feeling the need (& now you know how serious I am, giving up wine for three months!) visit www.bmycharity.com/EmzTakesOnLondon
Arohanui
Em
Monday, 21 January 2008
Got to start somewhere
Nau mai, haere mai!
Well if you're reading this then you either know me, know one of my friends or have decided to check out what mad Kiwi's do for charity while living in London. So thanks I appreciate your support/curious interest in my quest. Here is the deal:
Back in November I decided to try to enter the 2008 Flora London Marathon, having missed the individual ballot I applied to Children with Leukaemia for one of their team places. Then on 12 January I found out that lucky me I had secured a place! So now I have three months to train (living in London has not been kind ie Heathrow Injection...) and of course raise as much cash as poss for an incredibly worthwhile organisation that has taken a punt on an Antipodean!
So as a very eager member of the Mr Men & Little Miss Team I thought I could update you all on my progress, hopefully entertain you with my tails & raise a little (really a lot) of moolah along the way. To do the raise moolah part please visit this very easy to use donation page to make a contribution: https://www.bmycharity.com/EmzTakesOnLondon it is quick, safe & secure. Any probs please let me know.
So with the beginnings of a blog & a fundraising facility all that is left for me is to well as one of my darling flatmates put it "run Forrest, run!" I shall be updating you regularly, if you have advice or comments about my mission or fundraising then please leave me a comment or send me a message.
Arohanui
Emz
Well if you're reading this then you either know me, know one of my friends or have decided to check out what mad Kiwi's do for charity while living in London. So thanks I appreciate your support/curious interest in my quest. Here is the deal:
Back in November I decided to try to enter the 2008 Flora London Marathon, having missed the individual ballot I applied to Children with Leukaemia for one of their team places. Then on 12 January I found out that lucky me I had secured a place! So now I have three months to train (living in London has not been kind ie Heathrow Injection...) and of course raise as much cash as poss for an incredibly worthwhile organisation that has taken a punt on an Antipodean!
So as a very eager member of the Mr Men & Little Miss Team I thought I could update you all on my progress, hopefully entertain you with my tails & raise a little (really a lot) of moolah along the way. To do the raise moolah part please visit this very easy to use donation page to make a contribution: https://www.bmycharity.com/EmzTakesOnLondon it is quick, safe & secure. Any probs please let me know.
So with the beginnings of a blog & a fundraising facility all that is left for me is to well as one of my darling flatmates put it "run Forrest, run!" I shall be updating you regularly, if you have advice or comments about my mission or fundraising then please leave me a comment or send me a message.
Arohanui
Emz
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